#External gpu enclosure sold with gpu driver
The "Standard VGA Adapter" driver name you're referring to is just a name that was chosen long ago and has hung around. The system motherboard interfaces with the graphics card over PCIe, and the graphics card is then responsible for rendering that data into a video signal and transmitting it to the display using whatever signal type it wants.
The VGA signal doesn't originate from the system motherboard.
The system doesn't care what kind of signal the video card is sending to the display, so it's not as if a graphics card with a VGA connector would work, but one with a DisplayPort connector would fail just for that reason. My point was simply that the signal type sent from the video card to the display has absolutely nothing to do with the compatibility between the video card and the rest of the system. What I'm asking is if I could plug one of those mPCIe GPUs and plug it into the mPCIe slot on my Latitude and if it would work. Yes, they are sold solely to OEM's by GPU manufacturers (or the chip itself is sent to the OEM for manufacturing) but they have often been removed and sold online.
#External gpu enclosure sold with gpu install
Windows contains basic VGA drivers (that now support VESA extensions) and since all GPUs implement it, there should be a level of compatibility when running the BIOS and Windows in basic display mode (giving me a chance to install display drivers)Īdditionally, I have found listings on eBay for mPCIe graphics cards. For one thing, VGA is a standard that all graphics cards have implemented since the early 1990s generally supporting at a minimum 640x480x16 and 320x200x256 (and CGA/EGA compatibility) as well as often supporting XGA (1024x768), SVGA/Super VGA (800圆00 and a whole host of other things) and VESA extensions, in addition to being the connector type used by the first VGA card on the IBM PS/2 (I believe some early third party VGA clones may have used a 9-pin D-subminature connector a la CGA). And then Alienware has a proprietary Alienware Graphics Amplifier for this purpose (which predates Thunderbolt 3), but you don't have that either of course.Īnd just fyi, VGA is a very old signal type between a graphics card and a display, not a protocol used between the video card and the rest of the system.Ī lot of what you've said makes sense except for two things.
The only "official" way to connect external GPUs is Thunderbolt 3, which your system doesn't have. But those methods are messy and not guaranteed to work at all. The mPCIe GPU hack involves installing a PCIe bridge board into that slot that has a ribbon cable attached to it, and then you route the ribbon cable out of your chassis (so yes, you have a cable sticking out of the bottom of your system), and then you connect to an enclosure that contains a desktop graphics card. Instead, the discrete GPU if installed is actually soldered onto the motherboard rather than existing as a physically separate card - so if you order the system with a discrete GPU, you end up with a completely different motherboard, and sometimes a completely different cooling assembly.Īs for the mPCIe slot, you're not going to find a GPU that actually fits onto an mPCIe card. Even Latitude systems that are available with or without discrete GPUs don't have that design these days. If your post isn't visible it's probably because of an short/affiliate Link.The Intel Graphics chip is built into the CPU itself, and there isn't a slot to just plug another GPU in. Comments should be on-topic and contribute to the conversation.Ĥ: No short, ref and affiliate links. We typically lock approved links to sales to enforce the no-discussion rule.Ģ: No sensationalized, misleading or non-descriptive titles.ģ: Keep discussions civil and respectful. Discussing a sale in comments is not allowed - Take it to PMs or to the linked sale medium. We are not a trading subreddit, and do not want to have to deal with the fallout of potential sale issues in our community.ġa: You are allowed to promote your sale of eGPU equipment via ebay, /r/hardwareswap, or other means, via a link to your sale. 0: Posts must be related to eGPUs (External Video Cards).ġ: Please no selling/trading of eGPUs, video cards, power supplies and other hardware.
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